Word: rwandans
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...Rwanda, Hutu continued to return to their home villages from refugee camps-including Kibeho, where an estimated 2,000 were slain on April 22, most of them by Rwandan army soldiers from the Tutsi ethnic group. The violence erupted when the army began dispersing the Hutu refugees-some of whom were involved in the slaughter of more than 500,000 Tutsi and some Hutu last year-from several camps in southwestern Rwanda. About 2 million Hutu remain refugees in neighboring countries...
...spectacle was sickeningly familiar. Thousands of refugees, most of them Rwandan Hutu, clogged the rutted roads of central Africa last week. Thousands of men, women and children were on the move in Burundi, fleeing camps where they had sought asylum last year from the civil war in their homeland next door. Now, spurred by the dread of more ethnic killing, they trudged east toward Tanzania. As they passed other Hutu camps, more thousands gathered up their meager belongings to join the trek. About 40,000 refugees were stalled Saturday just outside Tanzania after the country closed its borders...
...been fracturing Burundi into tense ethnic cantonments, which many officials in the country and outside fear could explode into full-scale genocide. Fresh and ominous spasms of bloodshed erupted in the capital as well as the Majuri refugee camp near the town of Ngozi, where armed men killed 12 Rwandan Hutu and wounded 22 last Monday. That attack, presumably carried out by Tutsi militiamen, followed a week of ethnic cleansing in the capital, Bujumbura: bands of Tutsi swept through mixed neighborhoods, driving out members of the other tribal group, fighting with Hutu militia, shooting stragglers, burning houses and shops. Families...
Officials in Burundi and the world outside have been watching anxiously to see if the Rwandan nightmare would repeat itself here. The ethnic makeup in Burundi is the same as in Rawanda: 80% Hutu, 15% Tutsi. The difference is that in Burundi, the minority Tutsi have always controlled the armed forces, while in Rwanda the majority had the weapons. After the assassination of two Presidents in 18 months, the current government is a shaky coalition of the two rival tribal groups. Moderates willing to compromise are dumped by their own faction, and, says a senior foreign-aid worker, "the country...
Several hundred Hutu were killed by marauding Tutsi in a racially mixed neighborhood in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, raising the specter of widespread ethnic violence. Last year in neighboring Rwanda, genocidal massacres killed 500,000, mostly Tutsi. In Burundi, tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees decided not to wait for help and began walking to Tanzania--a two-day trek...